pronounciation poll

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Did you want to escape, try to escape the population?

"ofen" or "often"?

"ofen"
12
31%
"often"
27
69%
 
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Ive been told by my one friend that I pronounce everything wrong..and that i have a slight american accent or a really canadian accent.. i dont know anymore

off-ten
sear-up
man-ayze

what about bagel?
is it bay-gal or beg-gal

i say bay-gal
[glow=white] faceless lies it's easy to speak when[/glow]
[glow=white]every word is your own[/glow]
[glow=white] selfish eyes look onward in protest as we[/glow]
[glow=white] tear down their disguise[/glow]
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bay-gal because you can't make the "g" sound twice.
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i guess i meant bay-gal or beg-al
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[glow=white]every word is your own[/glow]
[glow=white] selfish eyes look onward in protest as we[/glow]
[glow=white] tear down their disguise[/glow]
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Post by Axtech »

bay-gal

Try clapping to break up the syllables.
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Post by Bananababy »

i say bay-gul... I've had this never-ending argument with my friend about whether it's bay-gul or baagul. like saying the a like you say apple. WHO SAYS THAT.
Also, is it cooopons or Q-pons?
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Post by megxyz128 »

Bananababy wrote:cooopons


ok now is it:

meijer or meijers

target or targets

kmart or kmarts

farmer jack or farmer jacks

haha, nevermind. it's only a downriver thing.
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Post by superboots »

megxyz128 wrote:
Bananababy wrote:cooopons


ok now is it:

meijer or meijers

target or targets

kmart or kmarts

farmer jack or farmer jacks

haha, nevermind. it's only a downriver thing.


MeijerS
target
Kmart
Farmer JackS

:lol:

goooooo downriver!
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Post by superboots »

well sometime i say meijer

but never targets
or kmarts
HARDCORE!!!

OMG. I can't believe I din't think fo you
until now because when I think on
a scale of one to ten you're like YWELVE.
No, seriously?

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Post by megxyz128 »

dude i totally agree, except i always say meijers. although wrong, it does sound better.

oh! in new york we found this meijers-type store Wegman's, that place seriously owns. we pronounce it weegman's just because it sounds better.
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Post by superboots »

it is not Me-he-rr

RIGHT?!? *cough*rob*cough*

:lol:
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Post by its4am_isanybodyhome »

offen
su-rup
mayo-nayze
bay-gal
tomayto
pro-nunce-e-a-tion
cooopons

i tried saying man-ayze, and it just sounded the same as when i say mayo-nayze, anyway.
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Cooopons

What is this meijer thing?

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Post by megxyz128 »

Badass Cass wrote:What is this meijer thing?


a Kmart-esque store, i think only in michigan.

pronounced myer
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*cause it's always savings time at farmer jacks!!!!*

that song owns.
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megxyz128 wrote:
Badass Cass wrote:What is this meijer thing?


a Kmart-esque store, i think only in michigan.

pronounced myer


i think its the midwest cause they have em in ohio
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haha, do you say jacks too? awesome.

EDIT: this is to Brett.
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Post by starseed_10 »

i dont know. we dont have them in canada, so i just went by what i thought it said in the commercial.
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Post by buzhwa »

First of all, the thread title is misspelled - should be "pronunciation". :P

Often. But not a very hard T sound.

SEE-rup? WTF??? SIR-up.

MAN-ase. Although that's basically like saying MAY-o-nase quickly.
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megxyz128 wrote:oh! in new york we found this meijers-type store Wegman's, that place seriously owns. we pronounce it weegman's just because it sounds better.


You don't have Wegman's in Michigan? I thought Wegman's was everywhere. Yuck, I hate that store.
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lol, nope, i've never see one before i went to rochester. they were seriously everywhere. no joke, but the only reason we thought it was awesome was because we pronounced it weegman's. dude! and chili street, hahaha, big o's. god i love rochester.
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